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■f* I ■The Largest Paid-Up Circulation of Any ■Newspaper Published I in Randolph County MEMBER OP ASSOCIATED PRESS - N. E. A. FEATURE SERVICE Randolph County's On^ Daily Newspaper COURIER “Over 10,000 People Welcome You to Asheboro, the Center of North Carolina” ■AJA1E lxi ASHEBORO, N. C. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1937 NUMBER 130 ME Iineteen Found Dead In Plane Crash; Fell From 10,000 Foot Level In Uinth Mountain Ranee iw Hindered Work iaster Worst In lerican History; ’rew Of Three Die ching Party Arrived At ene This Morning; Traveled All Night. Attempt to Bring Ail lies Before Nightfa'l; No Cause Reported. Lake City. Utah. Oct. 19— -A searching party reached the pie “main liner” high in the mountains today and found occupants of the plane dead, jtlph Johnson a United Airline and one of the ground bhers who kept going all night snow, informed L. D. Cudd supcrintendent, that a sur f the wreck showed no sign re. iter Johnson brought out word lie tragedy—the greatest num of persons killed in an Ameri itir crash—the line quickly as bled officials, airplanes and workers to bring out the sight, Wyo., airport, 26 miles north, was made the base of stions. bddback said Johnson went up be big airplane, “looked in and 16 passengers and its crew liree dead.” suse of the condition of the , Joihnsqp, wpsi u»at>ls,to make riplete investigation. He wast time but started immediately the mountainside for help, great airliner, missing since Mountain Time Sunday (10:16 IT.) was enroute from Cheynne, 6., to Salt Lake City, was first sighted from the air erday morning in the most dif section where it crashed about the 10,000 foot level, he searching party was aided »rds dawn but the bitter cold the going difficult. The of bls refused to comment on the lition of the victim’s bodies. ’ declined to speculate how long »uld take to remove the bodies 1 the work would be corn ed by nightfall. Dm the outset virtually no was held out that the oc knts survived. he crash was the worst in the #ry of American air crashes, ficials refused to express any of definite cause of the ac nt other than saying it might attributed “in some degree to ersc weather and flying condi i charge of the ship with Wood were Co-pilot Adams, 27, enver, and 23-year-old Hostess Derr of Salt Lake City. The sengers: engers Listed. s Cleaver of Portland, Ore., I Air co-pilot not on duty, orge Ferreira, of Cheyenne, sny mechanic. s. Phyllis Ferreira, his wife, alph McKeown, 27, of Glendale company employe, irles D. Renouf of Washing D. C., former company dis traffic manager. |rs. Campbell Pritchett, society an, formerly of the Washing ). C., Star editorial staff. fTilliam Pischcl, 65, Salt Lake attorney. A. McMillan 61, of Murray, h, bank president, s. J. A. Hammer of Cleveland, ohn Conboy of Cleveland, corn employe. J. Hart of Sharon, Pa. arles S. Jamson, 45, of Den L\ head of the Jamison Produce | bpany. L. Jensen, 27, Of San Fran r. Louis Gross, New York heart cialist. filliam Pitt, 31, and James Per 37, news editor and camera respectively for the Pathe ys Inc., New York City. Student Killed ford, Oct. 19.—Robert "W. Dan -year-old senior of the Uni r of North Carolina whose . was in Hollins, N. Y., was i instantly Sunday night at the river bridge on highway 15 1 Oxford when the car in which i riding with another student, >r of Long Island, N, Carolina, struck the over on the re It Was Practically Cataclysmic Ml I __ It looR' JUKI (HR ffM fflP RHli bHothrrs ("hot '15' mention' pounds of feline felicitating liver) to make thfe above movie scene called “Pussy Pussy,” .land it took Hollywood days to recover from a' situation that wasn’t petty. Prop men offered 50 cents each for cats. Small boys got busy. Complaints poured in. The chief of police retrieved his Persian from the studio and called an hour later to report that it already hud been “swiped” again. <' T’wasn’t an Air Raid-Nor A Shell, But it Was a Bang Visions of air raids—heavy “ash cans" and other projec tiles of death were envisioned by several hundred residents of Asheboro, particularly those residing in the northwestern section Sunday night when their homes, automobiles and other places of refuge were shaken by a heavy detonation. The blast, or echo of a blast, came in the quiet of a peaceful Sabbath evening. It shook homes, rattled dish es, and caused verbal outbursts from several mongrel dogs in the vicinity of the Asheboro ce metery. Residents in the vicinity of North Fayetteville, Ward, Ce metery, Salisbury and other nearby streets fled out-of-doors fearful of finding devastation in their wake. The cry was “What is it— where is it?” No one could answer. One man, who had been en joying the reading of a “blood Asheboro Greets Tourists; Receive City’s Souvenirs State Organization Made Brief Stop Here; Many Products Exhibited. It was early for a Sabbath morn ing but Asheboro’s welcoming com mittee to the State Travel Tour arose Sunday and journeyed to Winston-Salem in time to leave that city at 8 o’clock, escorting the tour to the central town of the state with a cordial welcome and Ashe boro’s best wishes. Among the delegates from Ashe boro that journeyed to the twin city to accompany the tour home were Harris Birkhead, president, and Cleveland Thayer, secretary treasurer of the Chamber of Com merce, J. D. Ross, vice-president of the Randolph bank, Senator Henry L. Ingram, Standard Oil company distributor, Seddon Goode, and Pa trolman Hubert V. Norris. The motoring group arrived in Asheboro at 8:18 A. M„ and were warmly greeted at the Sunset thea tre by C G. Bossong, president of the Bossong Hosiery Mills, C. C. Cranford, president of the Aaheboro Hosiery Mills, J. Francis White, and thunder” novel, by his wife, beat his spouse to the roadway — another trampled over a dog and from a large boarding house on Fayetteville stumbled more people than the house seemed able to accom modate comfortably. Automobiles were started and every man and his brother started a wild chase some where for something. Too, came the police and, be hind their car came dozens and dozens of others. The moment one car stopped every other driver “stepped on it” to “git” there. No one knew anything—but it was a bang-bang. Rumor hath it — that old popular lady—that about ten years ago a man went back in to the hills, planted some ex plosive and set a time fuse. Rumor gathers rumor and the best newspaper language —is that this thing will hap pen every ten years. president of the General Lumber company, D. B. McCrary, N. M. Cranford, C. W. McCrary, and nu merous other townspeople. After greetings and introduc tions the tour was given souvenirs of Asheboro, coming from various industries here. From the Ashe boro, McCrary and Bossong Hosie ry Mills came silk hosiery for each member of the tour. McLaurin and Tip Top furnished socks for the male members while Stedman Man ufacturing company replenished the visitor’s handkerchief supply. The advertising campaigners of the state expressed pleasure in being in Asheboro, were well pleased with the reception given them and mar veled at the progress of one of the fastest growing towns in the state. After the reception at the thea tre the tour assembled in cars and were escorted over the town, being shown the different mills located here. They were carried out Sun set Avenue, down Church and also Salisbury streets. The tour left Asheboro accord ing to the set schedule, heading for Pinehurst and Fort Bragg, American Loss In Shanghai Fixed At l Over 15 Millions United States Investment Concentrated at the War- £ Torn Center. Three Americans Diet Drive On Japs Opened New Entire Front; Seek End Of War This Month. IS Shanghai, Oct. 19.—t/B—Aftej sixty-eight days of warfare iij: Shanghai districts, American offia ciais and business men estitna today that American losses fr bombs, shells and fires were at least 115,000,000. Foreign invest ments in Shanghai total about $3, 300,000,000. The total loss of othe« foreigners was expected to many times that of Americans sine the British control 38 percent and the Japanese 3f> percent of the for-, eign stake. A survey by American Consu General Clarence E. Gauss, showe casualties in the international set-* tlement and in the French concesV sion, up to October 10, included t,f 900 Chinese and 6 foreigners kiRf ed. The death list included three Amf ericans, 4 Russians, 3 Germans, ana 2 British. There were several oth+ ers. American insurance men pointet out that more than 65 percent o: American business invested in Chit na is concentrated in Shanghai. 'K _ M Shanghai, Oct. 19—ISF)—Japanes* troops launched another majop drive on all Shanghai fronts to* night in an apparent effort to drivi out the Chinese forces before th«i Brussels 9-power conference cont venes at the end of the .month t<v seek an end to the Far Eastern con* flict. •• Chinese said the heavy attack was centered in the Tazang sector, now the most important post on the Shanghai front. Shanghai, Oct. 19.—(.B—Chijiese troops struck back at Japanese to day in a sharp counter-offensive near Tazan, the center of the Chi nese supply lines on the Shanghai front. The Chinese attacked the Japa nese who had launched one-half mile gain drive yesterday. In that engagement, an entire detachment of 1,400 Chinese and 3,000 Japanese troops were report ed kilied when the Japs attempted to sever Chinese food and munition supply routes. Straus New Head Of Housing Unit New York Banker Named To Nation-wide Post by Pres dent Roosevelt. Hyd'j l'ark, N. Y., Oct. 18.—UP)— President Roosevelt set in motion the federal government’s vast new low-cost housing and slum clear ance program by appointing Na than Straus of New York city as administrator. The youngish Straus, long a stu dent of housing problems in the New York metropolitan area, will take over his new $10,000 post Wednesday after a conference at. the White House with the Presi dent and Secretary Ickes. His title will be administrator of the United States housing author ity, a division created in the Wag ner-Steagall act under Ickes’ In terior department. Controls Big Program He will have control of a $626. 000,000 long range program aimed at elimination of big city slums and provisions of low-rent homes and apartments for the poorer classes. The appointment was announced after Straus emerged from a long conference with the President at the temporary White House. The Weather North Carolina. Cloudy with oc cassional rains tonight, ending in the east and central portions Wed nesday morning. Cooler Wednesday morning in the western and in central portions tonight. Hyde Park. N. Y. Oct. 19—<.P>— President Roosevelt, on record again for cuts in Federal relief costs and greater local and private aid jo the needy, ended another week at the temporary White Hodse and plans to leave tonight ton Washington. He ha(l only one official caller —William E. Dodd, ambassador to Germany who is on his way back to Berlin after a vacation. Polish Tennis Star Goes Home Back home with a broken toe and a trail of tennis conquests longer than her name goes Jad wiga Jedrzejowska (just call her Jaddy), sturdy Polish star. After a triumphal tour of the nation, Jaddy ran into a dou ble fault trying a high lob shot to play her handbag into a train rack. Shown aboard the Pilsudski leaving New York, dhe said the “best sportswomen the werldu*re American tennis players “Cotton Ed” Meets State’s Farmers South Carolina Senator At Winston Meeting; Discuss es Bill. South Carolina’s Senator, “Cot ton Ed” Smith yesterday .met with farmers ahd agriculturalists from the state of North Carolina, Ten nessee and Virginia in Winston Salem to discuss the situation now existing among the farmers, in the hope of being able to help remedy the situation when the special meet ing of Congress convenes the 15th of next month. Senator Smith is attempting to compile all data possible on the fanner’s problems in orde to be able farmer problems in order to be able bill which will to some extent aid them and carry out at the same time the wishes of the majority of crop growers. Shanghai, Oct. 19—OP)—A Jap anese warplane was blown to bits by its own cargo of bombs today when the heavily loaded plane crashed after Chinese anti-aircraft guns in Chapei scored a direct hit. President Hikes Budget; $895,235,000 in The Red Washington, Oct. 19. I/P)—Presi dent Roosevelt hiked his estimate of the Federal deficit for this fis cal year by $277,000,000 yesterday, forecasting the Treasury would run $895,245,000 into the red by next June 30. Revamping the budget issued last April, the President whittled his estimate of revenues by $266,000, 000 bringing the figure down to $6,650,410,000. He said spending would be $21,000,000 greater than anticipated and would total $7,345, 665,000 exclusive of $200,000,000 for debt retirement. Net 695 Milion. The estimate gross deficit of $895,245,000 included the $200,000, 000 to be spent for paying off debt. Exclusive of this, the net deficit was forecast at $695,245,000, com pared with a forecast of $418,000, 000 last April and a net deficit of $2,707,347,000 in the fiscal year ending June 30. Mr. Roosevelt gave no reason for his sharp reduction in the revenue estimate for this year, but authori ties assumed it was predicated on the severe stock market decline and recent down-swings in various business indices. On the spending side, the Chief Executive said numerous factors had arisen since last April to in crease spending, including expand **' ' Ross Family Pay $50,000; No Word From Kidnappers Federal Bureau Reported Money Contact; Wife In Lone Transaction. Missing For 24 Days Deadline For Safe Return Ex pired at 8 A. M.; Bills Made Up Ransom Stack. Chicago, Oct. 19.—(.W—D. M. Ladd, of the federal bureau of Washington, announced today the family of Charles Ross, retired greeting card manufacturer, had paid $50,000 for Ross’ return. Ladd’s statement said his depart ment could give no information as to details of the payments, “which was handled entirely by the family on what they believed definite proof in connection with the kidnappers.” Ross was kidnapped 24 days ago and at £> a. m. today, the deadline set by Mrs. Ross for word from the abductors, she had received no word. “We of course, could not be a party to the payment of a ransom in a kidnapping case,” the state ment read, “and was necessarily handled by the family. As we are advised, the family waited for a reasonable period of time for the release of Mr. Ross then gave out statements which appeared in the newspapers, Sunday, October 17.” Ladd said the payment was made in bills of $5, $10, and $20 denomi nations. Lighting Expert To Lecture Here Business Men Invited to Meet ♦ ing-Tuesday NiglrHit M. P. Church. The Carolina Power and Light corporation, Tuesday night, will en tertain the business men of Ran dolph county and the city of Ashe boro at a lecture designed to assist in electric lighting of show windows and window display. The lecture will take place in the M. P. church. The Genearl Electric company of Schenectady, N. Y., is sending a lighting expert from its plant there to outline the latest and most mod ern systems of show window light ing. All merchants and others in terested are invited to attend the lecture. Prior to the meeting the company will be host to the guest speaker at dinner. Sale Postponed Columbia, S. C., Oct. 19.—(Ah— State Treasurer E. P. Miller, said today the scheduled sale of certifi cates of indebtedness to finance a big building program at state col leges was postponed because it had not bean “properly advertised.” Nashville, Tenn., Oct. 19.—(Ah— Headquarters of the Southern Methodist church reported tonight more than a third of its conferences had voted on unification, all in fav or of the proposed plan. ed outlays for the railroad retire ment program, lgeislation author izing unemployment tax refunds under the social security act and extension of the Public Works ad ministration for two years. He served notice that he was drawing the purse strings on out lays by both the Public Works ad ministration and the big Recon struction Finance corporation, pioneer emergency leading agency wheih has pumped out billions of dollars into channels of finance business and industry. NO NEW LOANS. In the future, Mr. Roosevelt said the RFC will make no further com mitments for loans. In addition ,he said, commitments already on its books which may be cancelled will not be used for expenditure on oth er commitments, but will be “com pletely cleared from the books, thus insuring the elimination of such po tential charges against future bud gets.” Although saying cancellation of any commitments it is not called upon to meet will not make the RF C return money to the treasury, the President said that “the ulti mate effect of such action would relieve the treasury of a substan tial potential liability, and to this extent the buget outlook would be improved.” Evangelist Here Charlie Howard, well known ev angelist from Campbell college, who is assisting Rev. L. R. O’Brian in the annual revival meeting which began last night at the Ash eboro Baptist church. J. T. Underwood Dies Suddenly Former . Asheboro Druggist Succumbs to Heart Attack; Funeral Today. J. T. Underwood, 59, prominent druggist of Liberty, died suddenly Sunday evening.: He and Dr. JS. A. Henley lived in an apartment and he had stepped into the rooms to Dr. Henley to ask him to come into his room, as he was feeling uncom fortable, when he was stricken with a heart attack, his death resulting immediately. Mr. Underwood was born and reared in eastern Randolph, the son of Dr. and Mrs. G. C. Underwood. He was one of two children, the other being the late W. O. Under wood, of Asheboro. At the age of nineteen Mr. Underwood came to Asheboro as a clerk in his broth er’s drug store, the Standard Drug Co., which is now the Rexall store. After several months apprentice ship he went to a school of phar macy in Georgia, from which he graduated in 1912, and soon there after passed the state Pharmaceu tical board. He returned to Ashe boro and was for many years as sociated with his brother in busi ness, later opening the Liberty drug store, in which his interest has con tinued. Ill health caused him to go to Florida for a leave of absence, but he afterwards returned to Liberty. In the passing of Mr. Underwood the county has lost a man who was known and loved by many. A daughter, Katherine Underwood, survives. The funeral sevice was conduct ed from Curfls funeral home in Liberty at 10 o’clock this morning by Rev. R. T. Ellington, former pastor of the deceased, now pastor of the Graham Baptist church. A number of Asheboro friends at tended the service, honoring one who was known as a genial, loyal man. War Mothers Will Meet In Asheboro Executive Board of State In stall Officers Here Satur day Morning. The executive board of the Am erican War Mothers will meet in Asheboro Saturday morning at 10:30 at the home of Mrs. J. S. Lewis for the installation of new state officers elected at the stace meeting held in Wilson recently. During the meeting business will be taken up and discussed, and the delegates who attended the Nation al convention in Detroit recently will give a report on the conven tion’s activities. The delegates to Wilson were Mrs. R. E. Ridenhour of Concord and Mrs. A. P. Grier, president of- American mothers. The Legion auxiliary will enter tain at a luncheon at the home of Mrs. J. G. Crutchfield. Raleigh, Oct. 19.—$P)—North Carolina’s “administration party,” composed of supporters of Gover nor Huey, to date has given a wide berth to the Democratic senatorial contest. i Soldier Killed As He Arrested 4 Men On Federal Ground Sheriff Reports Cross Did Murder With Companion’s Automatic Shotgun. Head Blown Away Claim Defendant Used Deer For Shield as He Loosed Bullets. Raeford, N. C. Oct. 19 (.?>—Bill Cross, 43, Asheboro hunter, last night was charged with the killing of Sergeant J. F. Mott of the Fort Bragg reservation, and at the or der of a coroner’s jury, was held without bond in the Hoke County jail here. H. S. Rush, Jesse Crotts and Walt Routh, also of Randolph qo unty, alleged companions of Cross at the time of the killing were held in jail in default of $10,000 bail each. They were charged with being accessories after the fact. The coroner’s jury opened its de liberations late yesterday after noon due to the fact one juryman, Charles B. Spivey, Raeford, faint ed while attending the funeral of Sergeant Mott held at Parker’s church, near Fayetteville. He was ill for some time but later attended the inquiry. T. A. McNeill, Lumberton, sol icitor of Hoke county conducted the inquiry. None of the defendants took the witness stand. The chief state witnesses were Sheriff D. H. Hodgin and W. R. Farrington, his deputy. D. L. Guinn, an overseer employed on the reser vation was also a state witness. Guinn found Mott’s body, with the head blown partially off, a few minutes after he had encountered the four Randolph county men carrying a dead deer. Rush Talked Rush, according to Sheriff Hod gin’s testimony, was the key to wards unravelling what first ap peared to be a crime with few clues, the sheriff stated. Acording to the sheriff, Rush— and he was supported by Routh and Crotts—told him they had shot a deer on the reservation early Saturday morning. They then car ried the deer to their car which was parked on the federal property. While lugging the deer the men met Sergeant Mott who ordered them to stand still saying “I’ll have to arrest you.” Cross broke away saying: “You’re not putting me under arrest.” Cross, the sheriff quoted the trio as saying, then picked up the deer and held it up between and Mott at the same time picking up Routh’s gun— “They said they ‘heard a shot and saw Mott fall’ but didn’t ac tually see the gun fired”, the sher iff quoted Cross’ three companions. Cross who stated he had been ar rested seven times for violation of game laws, cross-examined the wit ness but did not refer to any mater ial facts concerning the actual shooting. Second Version According to statements .made by friends of the four defendants, in formation has been .obtained indi cating the deer was not slain on government property. Cross’ three companions, it was stated today, contend the deer was shot off the reservation, some 300 yards from where Sergeant Mott was slain.. Rush, according to statements made today was standing near the deer, which had been carried to the roadway leading onto the federal lands and heard Mott and Cross in a verbal discussion. According to Rush’s statement, Mott said, “If you leave I’ll be following you.” Routii, it was stated, was about 65 steps from the spot, in the near by woods. Crotts, it is understood, had pick ed up his gun and hurried from the scene when Mott and Cross com menced walking toward the auto mobile which was parked on the highway, a short distance from the reservation marker. Mott was carrying two of the seized guns on his arm and accord ing to Rush’s alleged statement at tempted to halt Cross who grabbed
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